A small group of straight pool players
met at Guys & Dolls in Belleville, NJ to contest the final
quarterly straight pool pro-am tournament for 2009. Dennis
Quinn, playing at skill level 5, won this event by defeating
Mark Moore.... click here for
full story

Marc
Vidal
Victorious at 3rd Quarter Event

photo
by Nick DiNicolangelo

Marc Vidal ran 93 balls from a negative
one score to easily win the 3rd quarter 2009 North Jersey
14.1 Straight Pool Pro/Am Quarterly tournament held at Comet
Billiards, Parsippany, NJ during the weekend of September
26th and 27th. Not for a brief laps in concentration, Marc
would.... click here for full
story

Battle
Royal at Comet Billiards

The North Jersey 14.1 Straight Pool
Pro-Am Quarterly held its second quarter event for 2009 this
past weekend of June 6th at Comet Billiards and even with
a short field of 8 players there was a lot of action and heated
battling, especially..... click
here for full story

Pro
Teaches Ams
a Lesson or Two

photo
by Nick DiNicolangelo

Veteran 14.1 pro Ed Hodan, a straight
pool champion in both States of New Jersey and Maryland, came
from the one loss side, on the weekend of March 28th and 29th,
to win the first North Jersey Straight Pool Pro/Am Quarterly
of 2009 with decisive victories over Gerard Soriano, Jason
Michas, and Carmen Lombardo. In the final match, Ed defeated
a strong amateur player, Gerard Soriano, by the score of 200
to 64. Ed’s one loss was from an early.... click
here for full story

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STRAIGHT
POOL NEWS

Ortmann Wins The World Tournament: Becomes
Historic 3x World Champion

10-12-2010 - Oliver
Ortmann has made history once again. Germany's Ortmann cemented
his pool legacy with a sound victory over World #1 Mika Immonen
of Finland. This is his third World Championship title, which is
a new record for Europeans. Previously only Mika Immonen (Finland)
and Thorsten Hohmann (Germany) held two World Championship belts
aside from Ortmann. The only other man to win three World Championships
sanctioned by the WPA is USA's Earl Strickland. The Predator World
Tournament of 14.1 was produced by Dragon Promotions and hosted
by Breaker Billiards and owner Ricky Coren. This is the 70th edition
of the straight pool event, making it the world's oldest tournament.

The World Tournament was played on beautiful Brunswick Gold Crown
tables and using Simonis Cloth. The event started play on October
6,2010 and ended on October 11th. The greatest straight pool players
from around the world arrived on USA's east coast... Click
here for complete story from AZBilliards.com